The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-09

T-4=!lfRtts at a cost Of S500,000.
1t is now estimated at the pension
office that the number of Mexican
pension claims will not exceed $4,000.
Eighteen thousand, of which number
three thousand are widows claims,
have already been received, and two
thousand two hundred certificates
have been issued.
Fifty-three postoffices will receive
the benefit of the free delivery system
on July by reason of those cities hay-
ing attained population Of 10000, or
the postoffices having returned rev.
enue of $4,000 or over during the
past year. The Southern cities THUS
benefited are Pensacola, Fla, Colum-
bus, Ca, Jackson, Meridian and Vicks-
burg, Miss, and Staunton, Va.
Two freighttrains collided four miles
south of Calera, Ala, Jrle 4, on the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Engineer Howard Rowe and Fireman
Barton, colored, were killed outright,
as was also a negro tramp, while an
other tramp was fatally injured. Rowe
died with his hards on the throttle
The trains were badly wrecked. The
accident is attributed to the faulty
time piece of one of the conductors.
During circus performance at Nes-
chen, Germany, on June 4, storm
arose and a portion of the roof of the
circus structure was blown off. The
pendant lights hanging from the
roof were broken, and the blazing pc
troleum poured down upon the heads
of the people below. There were two
thousand spectators and powerful
panic arose. In the midst of the tu-
multi one of the lightly built walls of
the structure fell in and the whole
building Immediately collapsed. A
large number of people were burned
and maGJ trampled to death, and
three hundred others more or less in
jured.
The breaking of the Dykes of the
Thesis River in Austria has resulted in
srbmerging fifty miles of the Alfold
plain near Szegedin. It is estimated
that the damage will reach sI,000,000.
The legality of assessments on rail-
roads by railroad commissioners is
upheld by chief Justice Waite in
recent decision in the case of the Gen.
trail Trust Company of New York VS..
the County Treasurer of Richland
County, S. c., whe was enjoined from
selling locomotive of the Columbia
and Greenville Railroad Company.
The French and English authorities
in the South Pacific colonies, are
charged with iberating convicts and
sending them to the United States as
immigrants. An agent of our Govern
ment says that the French Govern
ment is offering sl20 per month for a
steamer to run between Newmea to
Tahite and thence to San Francisco.
Including those caused by the grad
uation of the first class this year, there
are Isl vacancies in West Point cadet
ship. There have been appointed
the Union 143 young gen.
tlemen, of whom IS are from New
York, as candidates for these vancan-
,ies, and 80 alternates who may have
try at the examinations if their princi-
pals fail.
A company from Illinois is develop
ng a sold mine near the Savannah |
River, in Abbeville County, S. G.
Seventeen fhafts have been sunk and
he signs are encouraging. Signs of
gold have been seen on other planta-
ions in that section, and New York |
company is prospecting. Before the |
var 81 100000 were taken from Dorn's |
nine, few miles south of the present |
operations. 1t now belongs to the |
estate of Cyrus H. Mccormick.
The increase in price of coffee is be-
coming a serious matter. 1t is double
o-day what twas year ago; and as we
ire the largest coffee consuming nation
n the world, this means that what we
,aid S40,000,000 for last year will cost
is $50, 100000 this year. Last year We
7,2l1 900 pounds of coffee
f we consume an equal quantity this
,ear it will at present prices cost con-
umers S154, 100000. The increase of
he per capita consumption from 2.43
'ounds in 1865 to 9.20 pounds in 1856
hows how largely the article is used
y all classes Of the people as stii4u-
ant beverage and how important it is
hat the price should be low. The
of price in the last eight
months is ascribed partly to a disease
hat has attacked the leaves of the
Office tree in Asiatic and East Indian
Office districts, a reported short crop in
,razil and speculative schemes i'm New
[ork to take advantage of these facts.